The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-29

ever met And how hard time he had
had, Her imagination pictured the little
ragged, barefooted boy he must have been,
fighting against Fate with only the sid of
his own small hands, and the CUTE brains
that were lurking under his tawny locks.
The dangers he had passed were quite IA
like Othello's, but Miss Seraph Collamore
seemed likely to vie% them after BESIDE
mons's fashion.
She feitvaguely irritated that Aunt Fanny
and her Uncle Sidney would go on talking
| about him viewing him from their superior
| heights.
''It's wonderful the intellectual force that
crops out among the common people once in
a WHILE" Mr.. Sidney Collamore was saying.
| Ellis father was fisherman who could
scarcely read, and there was no better blood
on the mothers side. He has tough strug-
gle still before him; the profession is over
| crowded; but he will make his way. feel
a strong impulse to help him to a chance.
I'm not sure but should be doing myself
good turn too. feel the need of some fresh
brains and energy in my business" Mr.
Sidney Collamore was himself in the fore
most ranks of the legal profession.
''My dear Sidney! you wouldn't take him
into your own officer exclaimed Mrs.
Arlington. Sand yet as an experiment it
would be interesting. One would like to
see the effect of civilization upon him, and
vet one couldn't quite, under any circum-
| stances, receive him socially"
~You would see all the best girls in B.
setting their caps for him in few years.
Nowadays, when young man gets to the
top of the heap, he is not asked to display
the bones of his ancestors"
so, Sidney you know we have not those
| terrible dwelling notions in B. A young
man is expected to have them"
"The benes' Well, this young man has
the backbone of some of them"
Mr.. Collamore was very much pleased
with this small joke, and gratiied that,
although his sister ignored it, his niece
responded to it by smiling brightly. Mean
while the clerk was pursuing his vocation
of general enlghtener, and only vague
thrilling of his pulses remained of his
encounter with Miss Seraph's deep blue
orbs and bewildering blush The clerk
knew well that such thrillings were not in
his line. If he had been a good Catholic he
would have crossed himself and cried
AVauntl AS it was, he trusted his com
nonsense TO nip this little weakness in the
bud; it had never had just such task i'm
posed upon it before, but in othey emergen-
cies it had never failed him, and Il ihsnGht
it would not now
He must make his occupation an excuse
fordeclining to accompany Mrs. Arlington
on excursions in the character of fountain
of information. He would hold himself
aloof as far as possible from these people,
who were so far removed from his sphere.
1t was probable that even she of the deep
blue eyes regarded him merely with curios-
ity as type" How those words which
he had overheard rankled-when once he
would have laughed them to scorn-because
she heard them. What pitiable, idiotic
weakness for a man who professed to have
himself well in hand! He ground his teeth,
and opened his ears with a great effort to
the complaints of equity old gentleman
who wanted electric bells and an elevator
put in, chamber-maid arrested and bell
boy hanged, all before dinner-time
And then the first time that Mrs Arming-
ton asked him to go on an excursion he
went Cap'n Hackett, the landlord, thought
it wouldn't do to be unaccommodatin' to
the SWEETEST folks they'd ever hadn And
his clerk assented to this with an alacrity
that surprised him, "seein'" (as he ex-
plained) "Sarmwell was leetle apt to be
contr'y." His presence soon became almost
Indispensable to the success of Mrs. Arm
ington's expeditions. Without his mex
haustible fund of information the paper
which she was preparing for the Antiquar-
ian Society would be sadly incomplete; for
the other natives were as ignorant and
oblivious of their local history and tradi-
lions as the clans along their shores. She
had so far forgotten her difficulties con-
corning his social position as to reprove her
niece for cherishing unworthy prejudices
because she never joined in her enthusiastic
expressions of admiration for the young
man. Mrs. Arlington herself was almost
as dense as the clans concerning some
things that were going on beneath her very
nose.)
Mr.. Collamore had not been able to resist
his benevolent and business-like intention
of giving the young man chance in the
shape Of a position in his own Office on most
advantageous terms. To his surprise, Mr.
Samuel Pulsifer showed some hestancy in
accepting, and asked for time to consider,
although evidently much gratified
II can't quite make him out" said the
lawyer; ''but he has a reason; knows what
he's about; and I'm impressed anew with
his remarkable ability
The Collamores made an excursion to
Eagle Cliff the day after Mr.. Collamore re-
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of theirs from B had arrived, and were
of the party. Although the buck-b board was
somewhat crowded, Mrs. Arlington in
sisted that Pulsifer should go, as there
were some glacial marks on the rocks of
the cliff which they might miss if he were
not there to point them out. One portly
dame complained of being crowded, and
conveyed unmiStakable hints that she con-
sidered the presence Of the hotel clerk
superhuity; and the result was that Pulsifer
quietly announced his determination to
walk back, distance of six miles. Mrs
Arlington was indignant at the rudcness
offered to her protege; that he shoul Id be
sensitive had ceased to be ridiculous to her;
and she delared that there was plenty of
room; but he resisted all her entreaties.
There was a flush of irritation upon his
brow, and he tossed his hair back with a
gesture which Mrs. Arlington had dis
covered meant wounded pride.
But when she looked back at him standing
alone upon the cliff, as the party drove
away, his face was radiant. "What strange
ly varying moods he has he is certainly
genius" she said to her niece. And the
niece preserved shamefaced silence; as
well she might, for the changed mood of
''genius" was owing to the fact that she had
made distracting little noue at the portly
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